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Early wake up call at 5.30am as bags out at 6.30 onto the the coach by 7.20am

We left Amsterdam early as being a Saturday and the traffic not so heavy John decided we would go to a place that was not on the itinerary but thought because of it is history in the war we would be interested. This was the John Frost Bridge in Arnhem Netherlands …

Waking up and feeling a little more normal. Tristan was very impressed with the buffet choices for breakfast. Sausages and eggs are right up his alley. We headed back to the main street Hauptstrasse that parallels the Neckar river. We were able to go into the old church and listen to the end of a service with the pipe organ filling the huge room. …

We arrived in the late morning and were brought to the old town of Heidelberg. None of us managed to sleep much on the flight. Tristan liked the airplane, thought it was the best one he's been on so far with the food, video screens in the seats in front of you, he thought this was like first class ( I did not want to show him what first class gets …

... Kunstverein (Art club). The first was really cool especially the photos from Henk Wildschut. We even got to hear a grand piano solo and the second one was a bit gory. It is sort of weird how you get over the initial shock of seeing photos of war zones and the video installations were weird. In one of them a group of well-dressed upper class teenage girls completely destroy the walls in a changing room for no apparent ...

... into building something so intricate and vast. I know this is nothing compared to some other European sights we will come across, but it was still incredible. The monastery was nestled in the sleepy town of Maulbronn at the foot of some hills. On the hills was a vineyard, which was really picturesque. In this region, the vineyards are all grown on hillsides, which seems kind of challenging. Enjoy the ...